Biden: Guys, I assure you I, too, am super-poor

posted at 10:01 pm on June 23, 2014 by Mary Katharine Ham

Noah mentioned this in his piece about the ridiculous Democratic race to the bottom income bracket, but it deserves its own space. This kind of mess will continue to happen until reporters stop asking the question because there’s really no good answer. “Income inequality” is an evil of American society, according to the Democratic Party. In running against Republicans, especially Mitt Romney, every high-profile Democrat has made it his business to equate rich with evil. And, not just evil, but congenitally unable to understand or adjust policy to reflect the problems of real people. If that’s true for Romney, it’s surely worth a question for Hillary. And, Hillary’s bumbling answers—thrice over, now!—have made it a question reporters looking to raise their profiles would be wise to ask because it clearly precipitates gaffes.

Here’s Vice President Joe Biden assuring the American people he doesn’t even have a savings account. Which, pardon me, am I supposed to be comforted by the idea of a man one heartbeat from the presidency who runs over to the corner check-cashing place with his Ray-Bans on every Friday with his big Veep check?

When he joined the Obama ticket in 2008, Biden was the poorest senator (though, as Politifact reported at the time, poorest senator is still far wealthier than the average American.) In this year’s White House financial disclosure, Biden listed assets “valued at $276,000 to $940,000, including a rental property owned jointly with his wife, Jill,” according to USA Today. President Obama’s assets were “valued at about $2 million to $7 million.”

Stop the presses, Joan Walsh and I mostly agree. Though she posits that these arguments would be stronger if Democrats pivoted from their wealth to hawking a progressive tax policy. Which, isn’t that already the strategy? Perhaps it’d work better if they walked the walk.

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the ridiculous Democratic race to the bottom income bracket, but it deserves its own space. This kind of mess will continue to happen until reporters stop asking the question because there’s really no good answer.

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The only people more detached from reality than the Obama’s are the Clintons.

Of course maybe Shrillary is right – $ 100+ million net worth isn’t what it used to be. Did she mention she saw Mark Zuckerberg panhandling the other day?

Which, pardon me, am I supposed to be comforted by the idea of a man one heartbeat from the presidency who runs over to the corner check-cashing place with his Ray-Bans on every Friday with his big Veep check?

He has a secondary income… VP Biden charges the Secret Service $2,200 per month (paid for by American tax payers) to rent a small building on Biden’s Delaware property while the Secret Service is protecting Biden’s family.

Well, if they all think they’re poor (and compared to their Hollywood friends, and Soros, by comparison they might qualify), this would tend to explain why all their plans revolve around seizing everybody else’s property and “redistributing” it, to themselves and their cronies.

Oops. That’s the definition of a kleptocracy;

klep·toc·ra·cy

noun \klep-ˈtä-krə-sē\

plural klep·toc·ra·cies

Definition of KLEPTOCRACY:

government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed; also : a particular government of this kind

— klep·to·crat noun
— klep·to·crat·ic adjective

-Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

The next stop, logically, would be a full democidal government. That’s one that takes its citizens’ property, etc., after first killing them.

This stratgery of playing poor is almost good enough to be a new game show. “How Poor Am I”, starring (pick a dem). Instead of a race to the top of the bracket, it’s a race to the bottom. He’s got to have money socked away somewhere the irs doesn’t know about.